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Tuesday, 19 August 2014

NEW: Jack Gilbert's 'Michiko Dead' in Favourite Poems

Michiko Dead is a powerful poem in which Gilbert likens the grief he feels over the death of his wife, the sculptor Michiko Nogami, to the way a man carries a heavy box. It is an extended metaphor (i.e., the metaphor continues throughout the entire length of the poem) and the way each line on the page runs into the next mirrors the way the subject of the poem tries to wrap his arms around a barely manageable load. The language is simple but the sentiment it so skillfully hints at makes it one of the best 'descriptions' of grief that I have ever read.

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A Long Commute Home

To order a print copy of Art Nahill's "A Long Commute Home" ($15) send an email below. For an ebook version via Amazon, click on the cover image above. Also available on Apple iBooks, Smashwords, and Barnes and Noble.

Click the links below to hear me read a selection of poems from A Long Commute Home: